How can the Montgomery County Council help local businesses struggling during a pandemic in a moribund County economy? Why, by raising parking fees again in downtown Bethesda. That'll drum up more business for sure. New rates are scheduled to take effect "on or about" January 3, 2022.
For example, here in the Capital Crescent Garage near Bethesda Row, the hourly rate will jump from $1.00 to a whopping $1.50. Imagine, every hour you will now be able to contribute an additional 50 cents into the Scrooge McDuck vault under the County Council building, funding more kickbacks to their crony campaign contributors. The fee hikes follow a property tax increase that went into effect this past July.
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That garage has a fraction of the cars that used to park their pre-pandemic. Maybe this is a way to milk the fewer parking?
$1.50 per hour is still very cheap.
Have you paid to park in a deck in DC lately? Two hours in the deck under the DC Wharf cost me $24.00.
They can all go home. Your anti-business posture is showing.
Same great parking. Now with higher fees.
It's everything you already love, but better!
Wow. The very heavily subsidized public parking is slightly less heavily subsidized. The end of Bethesda as we know it, surely.
What do the privately owned parking garages charge?
Did they raise it in Silver Spring also, or just shafted Bethesda only?
Silver Spring rates were increased last year. Silver Spring parking district has had to repeatly transfer money to Bethesda parking district to help cover Bethesda's revenue shortfall/inability to cover debt payments on the garage 31 project. Bethesda is the opposite of "shafted."
This kind of price hike will make the parking structure moribund as well.
Great work all around people. Well done.
@6:33 AM: Yes, but your car was still there when you got back to it.
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